Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 138, Hammond, Lake County, 20 November 1918 — Page 1

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RE KILLED Indiana Harbor and E. Chicago Families Today Are Mourning Loss of Their Sons on the aBttlefields of France. Two more Lake county boys have iven their Uvea for their country and the news brings with sad force the fact that though the war is over the casualties are not. George Miesch. an Indiana Harbor young man belonging to the marine corps, is one more added to the toll of lives sacrificed for their country. Such as in the information received here yesterday by his folks who live at 3427 Elm street. He died of wounds receivd in action. Nov. 1. Killed U Action. Jerry Noor, 493S Tod avenue. East Chicago, received a telegram this morning advisiting that his son. John Noor. one of the first to enlist In Co. L, was killed in action ctober 4. John was born in Chicago and would have been 23 years old on .October 29. He was a young man highly respected by all who knew him and very companionable among his friends. AH reports indicate that he was a good soldier as well. SZember of Pamous Co. Almost from the first moment that Co. V was proposed, he decided to get Into the game and it was apparent that he desired as soon as possible to get to the front. He enrolled very early in the organization and .hen. last spring, sixty of that valiant band of East Chicago boys were selected to go overseas. John was" among the number. He was for three weeks In the' great Slurne drive and came through without a scratch. 'Where he was fighting at the time of receiving his mortal wound Is Unknown. Another Bon In Service. About two' weeks ago Mr. Noor received a short letter from a hospital nurse signed as John would sign It yet the handwriting made it evident that the young man was not able to write. The letter contained the young man's monthly salary and said that he was In a hospital but that he was getting along all right and was feeling good. Mr. Noor has another son in the service. Mat Noor. aged 21, who entered the training station for auto mechanics at V.'inona Lake near Warsaw. He was at that point when last heard from, a couple of weeks ago. Besides Mat, there . are four other children. Ted. aged 15; Anna, aged 17; Tina, aged 13, and Lena, aged 11. UNIQUE LAW SITUATION EXISTS JVTJfALPARAlSQ Hammond - Hessville Annexation Suit Develops New Angel. A noel situation exists In the circuit court at Valparaiso where the Hammond-Hensville suit was taken from Lake county. The attorneys went to trial Monday on the injunction suit of the city of Hammond against the town officers of Hessville whereby the metropolis claims that the village incorporation and annexation of the district between Standard avenue and the Little Calumet river is illegal. The defendants filed a demurrer that quo warranto proceedings were the proper agreed with the defendants. Judge remedy and the city of Hammond Harry Crumpacker sustained the demurrer. In view of the fact that Judge Relter in the superior court at Hammond had previously ruled that Jnjunctlon Instead of quo warranto was the prop, tr proceeding a unique situation existed, two judges, ruling differently on the same question. To expedite matters, Judge Reiter withdrew his ruling on agreement of attorneys and Judge Crumpacker that both -procedures would be taken. As a result Attorneys McMahon and jConroy for the city of Hammond have submitted evidence in quo warranto proceedings asking by what right the officials of Hessville hold office, and Injunction proceedings, seeking to oust. them. Attorney Fred Crumpacker appears for the officials of Hessville. The arguments will be heard Monday. By securing a ruling of the court on both proceedings ':he records will bo complete for the supreme court to pass Upon. NEUTRALS WANT BLOCADE LIFTED Bt United Press. WASHINGTON. Nov. 20. Neutrals are expected to urge a lifting of the allied blockade, according to diplomatic Intimation here. For our boys over there.

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V ,VA. II. S. YOOKIIEIS. The newest member of the Hammond city council is 11. S. Voorheis. elected alderman-at-largu to fill the vacancy created by the death of Fred Hopmann. A resident of Hammond for twenty-six years Mr. Voorheis has been a staunch republican aad is the proprietor of the Tri-C;ty Taxi and Dray Line. He is a resident of the second ward and an admirer of Mayor Brown. "This council has had a hard row to hoe." said Councilmau Voorheis last night to a reporter. "There are no old war horse politicianas in it and at first they had to get the lay of the ground. I don"t see how this council can be blamed for the condition of the streets. During the war public Improvements stopped. I think the council has done well a,nd 1 think the mayor has doe splendidly" EMENT STIRS UP UUCBJESE1UEHT Little Patriotis Are Grieved Because They Cannot Give As Much As Companions. 4 Hammond is thoroughly stirred up over the entrance of a war fund drive In tho city schools by way of what Is known as the Victory Boys and Girls movement, a national organization. There is much, resentment among parents with from two to five children In school by reason of the fact that In some schools teachers gave the children to understand that they were not patriotic unless they pledged $5 apiece for the Victory Boys and Girls. Many families gave their children a dollar apiece to contribute and as a number did pledge themselves to give $5. this aroused a feeling of chagrin on part of the children who could not contribute that much. Many of them came home in tears and there are some mighty Indignant parents In the town. There were three classes of pledges and three kinds of buttons and cards and as it is a mighty hard thing to make children understand why there were. - r .... . .. . 1 preferred cards and buttons, plenty or heart wounds were given as a child whose father is a poor man can have Just as much pride as a child whose father is able to give more. It is believed by those in a position to know that a great deal of harm has been done by the Victory Girls and Boys movement into the public schools and they declare that the solicitations should have been made outside of the scnool. BODY OF INFANT FOUND ON BLVD. The body of a newly-born baby boy wrapped In a towel and an old newspaper was found in the ditch at Indianapolis blvd. and 115th street this morning by Miss Lucy Emken of 700 Indianapolis blvd. The Hammond police were notified and the body taken to Burns' morgue. The body is beiieved to have been brought out from Chicago during the early hours of the morning in a machine. DON'T FAIL TO COME TO LIBERTY HALL TONIGHT The people of Hammond are cordlaly invited to come to Liberty Hall tonight to hear James Ia Fieser, of Cleveland, head of the Red Cross Home Service Department, tho most . important war body now active. He has a message which everyone should hear. This Is the annual membership meeting Of the Hammond Red -Cross 'and all members should make it a point to be present without fail. The meeting will begin at 8 o'clock. JUDGE TUTHILL IS NAMED Roscoe Klper of Boonville. senatorelect, and Harry Tuthill of Michigan City, representative-elect, were namel Monday by Governor Goodrich as the members of the first legislative committee to draft bills incorporating republican platform measures to be presented to the next General Assembly. The-committee will have charge of drafting the bill which will propose making the office of attorney general appomtlve "Instead of elective. Both members of the committee are former circuit court judges. Within the next few days they will hold a conference with Attorney General Stansbury, the Governor and others relative to the measure.

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Mother Dies Fighting Valiently to Save the Lives of Husband and Nino Children, Dreadfully 111 With Pneumonia. South of Hammond in a little farmhouse on the Gnfilth road late yesterday a mother died of influenza, leaving in the same room the husband and nine children all terribly ill of the dise&se. The woman, Mrs. Eeinder Van TIL fought death to the very last to wait on her sick babies. The world will never know the heroic struggle she put up to save the lives of others, losing her own. The Influenza epidemic was never tamped out in Lake county, health authorities state! today. Twenty-five new cases have been reported at the Wallace school and seven at the Rivereldo school in Hammond. And in many instances the new cases are in families where the disease has been transmitted from one member to another over a period of several weeks. Six Hammond physicians reported this morning the number of new cases in their care as follows: Oberlin. 35; Miller, 12; Groman, 12; Campbell. 9; Gil son. 9; OstrowskL 9. Closing of churches, schools, theaters, etc.. Is not expected to be ordered, however, by the Hammond board of health, but daily fumigation of schools and theaters may be instigated at once. Theater managers are expected to enforce prohibition of spitting. Sneezing and coughing by having offenders leave the house, and to provide proper ventilation. V The Hammond city council at meeting lest evening declined a suggestion by Councilman Patrick Reilley that theaters be closed for a month ami recom mended daily rumlgation of the play houses instead. The action followed reading of the. report from Dr. W. A. Buchanan, secretary of the board of health. The health department reports for the period of October 1 to November 15: "Births, 115; deaths. 227. "Deaths from influenza and Its complications, 190." Total deaths during the preceding like period. 66. "Sanitary Inspections, calls to houses for relief and other calls for inspector's department, 820.. Cost of department as per warrants made out " during time. J776. "While all doctors did not report their influenza cases available data makes me believe there were about 4.000 cases In Hammond" since October 1, ranging in all gra4es of severity. The most dangerous complications were pneumonia and Involvements of the heart. Many lives were no doubt sacrificed because the patients refused to go to bed early enough in the disease and to follow doctor's instructions to remain quiet. Cases treated with serum have not seemed to progress more favorably than those without it. "In my opinion we are too lax. In our segregation of Influenza patients. Public opinion is very hard to mould when it involves their dollars or Infringes upon their usual habits. The general public has not fully realized the virulence and great danger of influenza. Great suffering followed in many cases from poor housing conditions and from too free use of alcoholics. "We appreciate more fully the lack of hospital facilities In Hammond. Our municipal activities in regard to the care of our population have lain dormant. No Interest has heretofore been taken. Had any developed it was immediately overwhelmed by obstructionists and false economists, until a great epidemic caught us absolutely unprepared as were the allied armies in 1914. "Respectfully, "DR. W. A. BUCHANAN. " OF cues ii success Street Car Companies Get By With Less Confusion Than Was Expected. The G. & I. as It goes into Hammond now brings passengers over a different street. Hammond's busy street car transfer corner was shifted a block and the routing of Its street cars radically changed this week with less confusion to the public than mleht be expected and Gary passorieers are learning their new starting point easily. Starting Sunday cars from East Chicago and Gary went west on State street and cars from East Hammond and cars to Gary, east on Sibley street, forming a new loop. Incidentally cars from Chicago started looping the loop.-W5Qfh" on Hohman. west on Sibley, north- on Morton court and east on State street to Hohman. - The rerouting brought the crowds to Hohman and Sibley streets which is now the transfer point and relieved traffic conditions. It amounts practically to a double track from Hohman .street to Calumet avenue and on Hohman street from Sibley street to State street. The Improvement In the service is noticeable. 1

MLY HALF MILLION -FQBUtt COUNTY Magnificent Showing Made by Gary and Hammond in United Drive.

The United War Work Campaign bas brought the greatest outpouring of moiey for benevolent purposes ever recorded to the history of Lake county. Out of ten districts In the county, six reached 100. per cent or more on their allotment early yesterday evening, Gary leading with a wonderful record of 240 per cent, Hammond coming tecond with 150 per cent. Hobart third, with 118 per cent and Griffith fourth with 107 per cent. I'st Chicago and Whiting were also within the charmed circle and are now going strong with every indication of a whirlwind finish. Lowell and Dyer were so close to 100 per ce.)t that they are .rc bably "over" by this time. A. B. fcickson. county campaign manager, speaking of the results said. "The result of this campaign is significant of the wonderful generosity of the people not only in Gary but all over the county. It is also proof of the arrival of a great new era when men of all nationalities, beliefs and affiliations will work together for the comruon good of msn." He also paid a tribute to the organizing and promoting ability of the various chairmen and their associates whose fine work made possible the rccorcL ISarly yesterday evening the figures were as follows: ; Bait Chicago $ 85.000 S 85.000.00 75.000.00 1.000.00 29.000.00 240.000.00 8.000.00 11.800.00 6.006.93 1.025.00 1.587.00 808.00 Hammond 60.000 Highland-Munster . 1.500 Whiting . 27.000 Gary 100.000 Crown Point 13.270 Lowell 12.389 Hobart 6.937 Dyer-St John i- '1,692 Gr. fflth t 760 Total 1297.638 "Contributed by Hobart working in Gary. $468,201.93 residents FIGHT (f SE IS BITTER BY Vnitko Press. WASHINGTON. Nov. 20. So disturbing Is he progressive stand against republican "old guard" control of the senate that Will H. Hayes, chairman of tho republican national committee, will come to Washington tomorrow, it Is said. The fight today is on 'Penrosism" as applied to the taxation policy of the government during reconstruction and afterwards. Before he convss It Is said Hayes will have received a letter written him by a leading progressive. Insisting that Penrose be eliminated as possible chairman of the finance committee after the republicans take control. March 4. Senators believe the election of Penrose would constitute adoption by the republican party as one of Its policies the Penrose Idea of taxation which is the raising of most of the revenue through a protective tariff while big Incomes and profits go practically untouched. BREWERS' "BLACK LIST" IBt United Press. WASHINGTON. Nov. 20. The soca!led brewers' "black list" cropped out toda at the meeting of the senate Judiciary sub-committee Investigating brewers' activities when Hugh F. Fox. secretary of the United States Brewers Association, admitted that the members were advised to give trade preference to "those who weie their friends." "We" are engaged In what was practically a war and didn't consider it good business to throw business to those unfriendly to Us" Fox explained. He objected to tho word "boycott" in this connection. Con espondence was submitted tending t- show that a number of automob'.l concerns, various large business enterprises and the Western Union TeW'S'kph company were placed on a Mfcfk list because of utterances ' unfriendly to the brewers on the part of executives In the firms. Fox admitted authorship of several letters prot;stlns agfinst discharge of drinkers. - HEAVY CASULTY FOR GERMANS fBT United Press. .-COPENHAGEN. Nov. 20. Total German casualties for the war were 6.07C too, according to the Berlin Vbrwaer..;. These included 1,680.000 killed, 4.0)0.000 wounded, and 490,000 ta"Ren prisoner. GERMN ADMITS DEFEAT AT JUTLAND Br United P.ess. NEW TORK, Nov. 20. Germany admits defeat in the battle of Jutland for the first time through an article in the Berliner Tageblatt by Capt. Tersius, German naval critic. Hitherto the Germans had also declared this a great victory.

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' Ex-Kaiser Vilh elm, at right, with the Hetman of Ukraine Skoropadeki, his "equal" before Wilhelm abdicaied. This photo 'is one of the last taken of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm before his downfall. The kaiser's hair is gTay and he made no attempt to hide his short arm. Before the war the court photographer adr i'Jy pcs'id h:m so his short arm wouldn't show.- His good one had to do all the fancy posing in the picture. The photo shows Wilhelm with the Hetman of Ukraine . Skoropadski, considered WUhelm's "equal" in ruling: circles until Wilhelm abdicated- . .

FREEDOM OF SEAS BIG QUESTION CBt United Press. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. "Freedom of the seas in peace andwar. " promises to be the foremost point of contention at the peace table. Determination of details of this principle to be enforced under the great League of Nations constitutes President Wilsons's main reason for going to France to attend the peace conference, his friends declared toda. . The president's attitude In regard to f redom' of the seas has been propounded In his various speeches, his friends declare. His position embodies the following: No discrimination between nations in shipping facilities. No bocotts except when necessary as disciplinary measures. Exact definition of what constitutes contraband goods and reduction of this list to the minimum. BERLIN WORKMEN MAKE DEMAND Bt United Press. "WASHINGTON. Nov. 20. The Berlin workmen and soldier's council demanded Tuesday night that a general workmen and soldier's congress be summoned Instead of a constitutional assembly. Chancellor Ebert and other moderates tried vainly to alter .the, council's attitude. UNITED WAR FUND SWELLED Bt United Press. NETW TORK, Nov. 20. Pledges cabled from foreign countries to the national headquarters of the United War Work campaign added $1,270,000 to the fund and brought the amount subscribed to date to $156,665,058. The central department has reached its quota while the eastern department has pledged 78 per cent of its allotment. COTTON SENATORS' MAKE APPEAL Bt United Press. WASHINGTON. Nov. 20. Cotton states senators today appealed to President Wilson to remove the embargo on export of cotton. In a letter to the president, they pointed out that 600,000 bales of cotton are tied up in American ports while a serious shorta"ge" existed in European countries. STANDARD HIRES CAR BUILDERS The Standard Steel Car plant is taking on men- at the rate of fifty a day, it was stated today. While the ordnance department is said to be slowing down the car side Is picking up and keeping things even in the employment line. The men hired are car builders. AT THE ORPHEUM. The Ben Hassen Arabs, Rose and Hendricks, comedians; Ray Dawn & Co.. singing and whistlin; Vera Clayton, novelty girl .and Ruth Roland. in 'Hands Up," are at the Hammond Orpheum Theater for the mid-week, starting today. Send the Home to him.

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7 f SHOULD War Expert Says It Is a Question Only of How Little Food Should Be Given by the World. By J. W. T. MASON. UNITED PRESS WAR EXPERT. NEW YORK. Nov. 20. The democratic movement In Germany may be seriously impeded and perhaps fatally handicapped if America and the allies undertake to satisfy the hunger demands of the German people. The world cannot deliberately let Germany starve, but without permitting famine to exist, the democratic nations should compel the German people to know what partial hunger means for a long time to come. The Germans at home have not had the foil taste of war. Their territory has not been invaded except for a small part of east Prussia and they know the personal moaning of the conflict chiefly because of food deprivations. The German militarists are carefully watching for an opportunity to return to power. The fact that Alsace-Lorraine and Prussian Poland are to be taken from the German empire Is not preventing the militarists from counting upon the future territorial expansion of Germany through the : annexation of Austria. The German people have rot shown any spirit of conversion to pacifism, except such as had been forced on them. The new government at Berlin has not removed a single high militarist from his post of authority. If, under this condition, the German nation, is fattened by plentiful supplies of food, there is good reason to believa the militaristic spirit will be revived and the German people will again become a world menace. Hunger is a good tonic for German democracy. Hunger for many months ought to be enforced upon the German people. Not starvation, but hunger. Enough food should' be withheld from the Germans to cause them to taste a little of the suffering they have brought upon the rest of tho world. It ought not to be a question of how much food should be sent to Germany, but how little. GARY MAN IS SLIGHTLY WOUNDED The casualty list sent out by the War Department today contains the name of Gustave E. Robertson, V28 Connecticut street, Gary, and lists Private Robertson among the slightly wcunded.

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TO National Decides to Carry Out to Carry Out Plans Made Bet ore United States Entered War, Eerection- of a new plant ia Gary, the cost of which wUl be $25,000,000, has been decided on by the National Tube Company, which is i. subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporaticx .' Flans for the establishment had been made previously to the entrance of the United States into the world war, but it was not known until today that it had been determined to proceed with the project. Expressing confidence In the future Industrial outlook, officials of the concern have announced that It Is ths Intention to build four, blast furnaces and other departments. About 6.000 men are to be employed In the plant. Concrete docks and foundations for Iron ore unloaders already had been constructed previously to the conflict with Germany. The headquarters of the tube company are at Pittsburg. The American Car and Foundry Company, which was ready to start construction of a new $10,000,000 plant here befors the war, also is planning to carry, out Its progranvit Is understood. Construction probably will be begun early next year. The company alraady has acQulrsd a site for the factory. Za .addition to Tubs Plant. . Improvements contemplated by the Steel Corioration. in - addition to the tube plant, call for the expenditure of about $15,300,000. Tbreo hundred new coke ovens also are being considered, the cost of whioh would be several million dollars. While al! of Gary steel mills and auxiliary industries have been directly affected by the war, due to the great amount of government work that they were going, there will be no cessation in the demand for labor as a result of the changed conditions, according to business men in touch with the situation. Readjustment of machinery In soma of the factories has resulted in ths laying off of a few hundred men. but these already are being absorbed by other plants. The Aetna Explosives plant hers as told in The Times last week has laid off 300 men as a result of the cancellation of war orders by the French government, but these men were at once taken Into the steel plants which are now called on to fill domestic orders. The Cary sheet mills, which had a government order for one million steel helmets, will make other kinds of sheet metal. J. in wiisiiGTor WASHINGTON. Nov. 20. Representatives Sanders, . Kraus, Wood.Moores and Fairfield, who have returned to Washington, are receiving congratulations from ther colleagues In Congress on their re-election. Congress is working on low speed now, but the members are fairly swamped with correspondence which accumulated during their brief absence while they were in Indiana to vote. Senator Watson has returned to Washington, but Senator New is up in Michigan, for a bit of recreation before settling down to the grind In Congress. The Junior senator Usually bags a deer or bear on his Michigan trip. W. J. McAleer of Hammond, has called In the director general of railroads to obtain authority for the construction of a spur track to a new oil field in Wyoming that is being developed by the North Central Oil Co., financed largely by Lake county men. The stockholders include State Senator Thomas Grant. GRIFFITH LADY DIES OF INFLUENZA ' Lalnke VanTil. 38 years old. wife of I Reinder VanTil of Griffith, died at their home of Spanish influenxa.' There are at this time nine other members of the family 111 with the same disease at the house. The funeral will be held from their' residence Thursday afternoon at two o'clock. Interment will be held in H.'ghlAtid cemetery. Und i taker Emmerllng in charge. TO ANNEX AUSTRIA TO GERMANY United Pkew Cabmoraji. COPENHAGEN. Nov. 10 The Austrian delegation has begun negotiations in Berlin for annexation of German Austria to Germany, according to advices received here today. Winter nearly here. Give to soldiers' relief agencies.

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